The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Acts 17:30 in context
Acts 17:27–33
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that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
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‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’
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Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.
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The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
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because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
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Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”
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Thus Paul went out from among them.
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